I was going to say his website was in Singapore, but looking at his posts that may be for other reasons. He should be right though, he wished someone else had done it. He never called for it to be done.
Although your suggestion sounds fairly reasonable, it has a few problems I can think of.
1) We don't have enough time to learn all we need to learn anyway. If you start throwing in the old theories, creationism, pan genesis, "god wills it", people won't have time to learn the current theory.
2) People get horribly, and I mean horribly, upset when their religious beliefs are exposed in this manner. Do you really want a classes of crying, violent students lynching their teachers? Maybe in university you could get away with it, but at any lower level you have just attacked their relationship with their families, friends, and church. People say science has nothing to do with the god, this is true. However, science is diametrically opposed to religion. Religion says, "This is the word of god, you shall believe what we say" and time and time again science has come along and said, "Bugger off, Jack!".
3) It is completely the wrong way round. If creationism wants to be accepted as an equal contender to evolution then it needs to be held to the same standard as evolution. Namely that it is testable by us, and that is where it falls over. It isn't testable at all. Unless you expect people to spend their lives looking into an empty test tube waiting for it to happen?
I feel the same way. Being on Mars would be unbeleivably awesome. I don't know whether I would take a one way trip if I was offered. The Earth is stunning as well. I am just more used to it.
The pictures (video?) have me somewhat bemused though. I know the air pressure is lower on Mars, so how fast is the air blowing to cause these Dust Devils? It would seem to me that either the air is moving insanely fast or the dust particle size is tiny. Any ideas/information?
"When 911 callers tell police operators that photos or video related to their complaint are available, a detective with the New York Police Department's Real Time Crime Center will call back to receive the images."
Instead of one phone call and staying on the line, you now have to hang up so a detective can call you back to teach you how to send an image from your phone?
Have they even thought about the way they are going to make people feel at their weakest most vulnerable moment? And then great, they have a picture. This will help how? A video will be next to useless as you will be shaking to much. A picture may be worth a thousand words but it isn't going to help if most of those words are "covered in blood". What if the light is bad, and makes the patient look like they have blue lips? I have to imagine they have thought of all these things. TFA says little to nothing.
"Bloomberg said in a statement. "If your cell phone is equipped with a camera--and many are these days--you might be able to get a picture of something that will help the police solve a crime."
Or you might cause another as the criminal beats the hell out of you to get your phone.
I fail to see how you can make a local law against any usage of cloud computing. After all, which country is the information in?
And I hate to say it, but it might be time for a worldwide treaty with business that store data outside the signatory nations being blocked from doing business's in those countries.
I do use bittorrent to download music....from Jamendo. It isn't just the Music industry that needs to change folks. It's us as well.
The best way to get rid of copyrighted/drm'd music is just to not use it. Either listen to free music (you can donate if you want) or create your own. Either way, we will all be better for it.
Which brings me to a thought I had last night. What would have happened if, instead of propping up Freddie and Fannie, the U.S. govt had paid the mortgages directly? Any ideas?
I don't know, but did you ever see that video of the girl with the nokia? I always thought that would have been better to the 2001 soundtrack. You know, just as it pops out...dum dum dum dum dum!
Disclaimer - This comment is utterly disgusting and should not be viewed at work or by people without a twisted sense of humor. I yet again apologise for bring down the tone of/..
Shh! Don't disturb the children. Really, every time this site mentions religion we all fall into camps and reenact the crusades. The most amusing part for me is the occasional, "Science cannot disprove God", etc....While it may be true that science is not about disproving god, it appears to be hellishly bent on disproving religion.;)
Or, they might have just had a smart guru. Or, perhaps all the people who ate the cattle died of starvation. If you read the definition of superstition, it would discount your theory as it would be based on the laws of nature. Of course, it just killed part of mine too. But, that's life.
Generally speaking though, grain production produces more food than cattle production.
I would have thought it was a product of our society being unable to adequately explain (either through their ignorance or just a lack of language) why things were dangerous. Where does evolution come into it? Is the article saying that knocking on wood is hard wired into our brains? Being worried about rustling grass isn't a hard wired phenomena, it isn't even a superstition. It's the result of being told about bloody lions eating people. Fear is an evolutionary advantage. Superstition isn't.
If that was true, then the BBC should be getting hammered right now for the way they have reported on Lehman Brothers. A couple of days ago it was 30% loss, then 35%, 40%, and now 60%. With each bulletin they have speculated on whether the bank will fall over and that the government will do nothing to help.
Besides which, a large amount of the news is the result of aggregation from companies such as Reuters. Or do you think that an news story from another country should not be printed in your media without your local paper checking all the sources? Only the original source of the story should have to verify the information unless the story is really big (Iraq has weapons of mass destruction) or information is still forthcoming (30,000 people dead from Tsunami so far). Otherwise the whole system bogs down.
What worries me about this is not the root cause but the end result. How much of our culture will we lose because it was no longer worth looking after archives?
I was watching NASA TV once when one of the press asked why the shuttle had such an old OS. The answer (massively paraphrased) was,"If we ran windows and it crashed, we would all die."
Agreed. On the other hand, please stop advertising to us. Advertising works. I don't want people manipulating my brain. Those triggers aren't there for you to sell me product under the guise of group inclusion, power, sex, happiness, etc.... They are there to help me survive in the real world, not a fantasy land. Your product is essentially useless, it provides no real world benefit to me except to give me a brief (insert brain chemical) hit. Why do you expect that after addicting me to your product, I would then pay you for it when I can get it at a far cheaper price?
"the terrorists start taking dance, yoga, and other lessons to change their walking style.Go ahead, develop more technology, there's always around it." Dear gods no, why not just wear a dress or a trench coat?
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I was going to say his website was in Singapore, but looking at his posts that may be for other reasons. He should be right though, he wished someone else had done it. He never called for it to be done.
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Mod parent up. This link is great!
Although your suggestion sounds fairly reasonable, it has a few problems I can think of.
1) We don't have enough time to learn all we need to learn anyway. If you start throwing in the old theories, creationism, pan genesis, "god wills it", people won't have time to learn the current theory.
2) People get horribly, and I mean horribly, upset when their religious beliefs are exposed in this manner. Do you really want a classes of crying, violent students lynching their teachers? Maybe in university you could get away with it, but at any lower level you have just attacked their relationship with their families, friends, and church. People say science has nothing to do with the god, this is true. However, science is diametrically opposed to religion. Religion says, "This is the word of god, you shall believe what we say" and time and time again science has come along and said, "Bugger off, Jack!".
3) It is completely the wrong way round. If creationism wants to be accepted as an equal contender to evolution then it needs to be held to the same standard as evolution. Namely that it is testable by us, and that is where it falls over. It isn't testable at all. Unless you expect people to spend their lives looking into an empty test tube waiting for it to happen?
"Since you allowed his to park there for years he can argue that he has your permission."
And you can argue you own the truck.
I feel the same way. Being on Mars would be unbeleivably awesome. I don't know whether I would take a one way trip if I was offered. The Earth is stunning as well. I am just more used to it.
The pictures (video?) have me somewhat bemused though. I know the air pressure is lower on Mars, so how fast is the air blowing to cause these Dust Devils? It would seem to me that either the air is moving insanely fast or the dust particle size is tiny. Any ideas/information?
"When 911 callers tell police operators that photos or video related to their complaint are available, a detective with the New York Police Department's Real Time Crime Center will call back to receive the images."
Instead of one phone call and staying on the line, you now have to hang up so a detective can call you back to teach you how to send an image from your phone?
Have they even thought about the way they are going to make people feel at their weakest most vulnerable moment? And then great, they have a picture. This will help how? A video will be next to useless as you will be shaking to much. A picture may be worth a thousand words but it isn't going to help if most of those words are "covered in blood". What if the light is bad, and makes the patient look like they have blue lips? I have to imagine they have thought of all these things. TFA says little to nothing.
"Bloomberg said in a statement. "If your cell phone is equipped with a camera--and many are these days--you might be able to get a picture of something that will help the police solve a crime."
Or you might cause another as the criminal beats the hell out of you to get your phone.
"Yes, anyone should be able to break the law and then get off scot-free by claiming it was in the public best interest."
Your right. We should leave that to our government.
IANAL
I fail to see how you can make a local law against any usage of cloud computing. After all, which country is the information in?
And I hate to say it, but it might be time for a worldwide treaty with business that store data outside the signatory nations being blocked from doing business's in those countries.
I do use bittorrent to download music....from Jamendo. It isn't just the Music industry that needs to change folks. It's us as well.
The best way to get rid of copyrighted/drm'd music is just to not use it. Either listen to free music (you can donate if you want) or create your own. Either way, we will all be better for it.
Oh my god, I'm a fanboy! Arghhhhh!
Which brings me to a thought I had last night. What would have happened if, instead of propping up Freddie and Fannie, the U.S. govt had paid the mortgages directly? Any ideas?
I don't know, but did you ever see that video of the girl with the nokia? I always thought that would have been better to the 2001 soundtrack. You know, just as it pops out...dum dum dum dum dum!
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Disclaimer - This comment is utterly disgusting and should not be viewed at work or by people without a twisted sense of humor. I yet again apologise for bring down the tone of
Shh! Don't disturb the children. Really, every time this site mentions religion we all fall into camps and reenact the crusades. The most amusing part for me is the occasional, "Science cannot disprove God", etc....While it may be true that science is not about disproving god, it appears to be hellishly bent on disproving religion. ;)
Sit back, grab a cuppa, and enjoy.
Or, they might have just had a smart guru. Or, perhaps all the people who ate the cattle died of starvation. If you read the definition of superstition, it would discount your theory as it would be based on the laws of nature. Of course, it just killed part of mine too. But, that's life.
Generally speaking though, grain production produces more food than cattle production.
I would have thought it was a product of our society being unable to adequately explain (either through their ignorance or just a lack of language) why things were dangerous. Where does evolution come into it? Is the article saying that knocking on wood is hard wired into our brains? Being worried about rustling grass isn't a hard wired phenomena, it isn't even a superstition. It's the result of being told about bloody lions eating people. Fear is an evolutionary advantage. Superstition isn't.
Evolution doesn't take steps backwards. It just takes steps.
If that was true, then the BBC should be getting hammered right now for the way they have reported on Lehman Brothers. A couple of days ago it was 30% loss, then 35%, 40%, and now 60%. With each bulletin they have speculated on whether the bank will fall over and that the government will do nothing to help.
Besides which, a large amount of the news is the result of aggregation from companies such as Reuters. Or do you think that an news story from another country should not be printed in your media without your local paper checking all the sources? Only the original source of the story should have to verify the information unless the story is really big (Iraq has weapons of mass destruction) or information is still forthcoming (30,000 people dead from Tsunami so far). Otherwise the whole system bogs down.
What worries me about this is not the root cause but the end result. How much of our culture will we lose because it was no longer worth looking after archives?
So, why isn't your company suing for defamation?
I was watching NASA TV once when one of the press asked why the shuttle had such an old OS. The answer (massively paraphrased) was,"If we ran windows and it crashed, we would all die."
"The word you're looking for is delay, not avoid."
Sometimes the rate at which something happens is just as important as what actually happens.
Can you imagine the furor if it was provided by the Australian government?
Nope, the next version should be FNQL.
Agreed. On the other hand, please stop advertising to us. Advertising works. I don't want people manipulating my brain. Those triggers aren't there for you to sell me product under the guise of group inclusion, power, sex, happiness, etc.... They are there to help me survive in the real world, not a fantasy land. Your product is essentially useless, it provides no real world benefit to me except to give me a brief (insert brain chemical) hit. Why do you expect that after addicting me to your product, I would then pay you for it when I can get it at a far cheaper price?
"the terrorists start taking dance, yoga, and other lessons to change their walking style.Go ahead, develop more technology, there's always around it."
Dear gods no, why not just wear a dress or a trench coat?